Pages

Friday, March 26, 2010

Hithis week on TAST 2010 SHARON has introduced us to a very beautiful stitch called the PORTUGESE BORDER STITCH. I have tried out 2 samplers, i liked the look of it:-)Initially i couldnt get the tension right but when i did get a feel of it , i liked it.This stitch is worked on a set of foundation stitches.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

hiI had joined PATTERN CHALLENGE some time back. U must have seen the logo in the side column but took a lot of time to start off. Well it has been a challenge to me right from the beginning:-). let me explain..........Sarah of comeandseetheseitz.com had a tough time explaining to me as to how to put the logo in the side bar:-) and the rules.The rules are:1. MAKE OUR OWN GOALS......and mine are that i stitch one garment a month at least.2.blog about it.....have started to3.Grab the “Pattern Challenge” button and Join the Flickr group.4 Blog about the finished garmentsnow let me continue with the story.....I was full of enthusiasm to start off but wanted to stitch something very different so downloaded this pattern from burda.After this i thought that nothing could stop me now ,but i was wrong AGAIN :-(. I realized that i was not able to print the pattern because burda had some technical snag. Immediately wrote a mail to burda and the bug was fixed and i was successful in printing the pattern. The WOES did not end here......More to come:-)........I am not very conversant with the pattern sizes from U.S. and U.K. assumed that it is going to be the same and bought a beautiful black floral fabric , cut, and stitched........SUCCESSFUL...ASKED MY DAUGHTER TO WEAR IT BUT .......................NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......SHE wouldn't......why???????????????/because she couldn't:-) it wasn't her size at all....hehe

I realized my folly and stitched this for her :-){her size}:-):-)

I have made a few changes though..... stitched up the back opening, added more gathering to the sleeve and maintained the opening through the peplum too. I would say its great for the summer

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

HII have been of late bitten by this silk painting bug, not able to resist the colours..........i have done a water colour technique on the salwar and salt technique on the kameez.have used white pure silk base materials for both .... The colours that are used are Pebeo seta silk

hello everyoneThis week on TAST Sharon introduced us to an edging BEADED HEDEBO EDGE. A lovely edging and as sharon rightly said , it can be used in many other ways. I have used it on a kurta for my daughter. The salwar is a blue batik one , and i thought this will look a little different. Have used it only on the front panel. Will put up the picture of the kameez when done ;-). I wanted to use this on the edge of a paisley pattern , but no time now......... may be next week :-)

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

I am happy to tell you all that i have taken up TAST 2010 by Sharon boggon. TAST means take a stitch on tuesday. Each week she will teach us a stitch and we will have to explore the possibilities that the stitch holds. this week it is DIAMOND STITCH

And these are my trials

1. a simple diamond stitch

2. i have wrapped a contrast colour thread here

3.used daisy stitches to embellish

4. Here i have used individual stitches to form a diamond

5. I have used this stitch in a center block of my bed linen

how did you all like it????????sonie,Sarah and Doreen have also done some beautiful samples. please do have a look at them.......it may inspire you to do more:-)